(VOVworld) - Foreign Ministers of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France during a telephone conversation on Friday stressed the need to convene another meeting of the Contact Group on resolving the situation in Donbas, Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin (left to right; Photo: AFP/ VNA)

The sides continued to discuss the ways to promote the peaceful settlement of the situation in the south-east of Ukraine, including in the framework of the Minsk agreements. In this regard, they stressed the need for the early convening of the next meeting of the Contact Group", according to the statement. The ministers also discussed the schedule of further consultations in the so-called "Normandy format" on different levels. On December 9, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko declared a "silence regime" in the in the conflict-torn Donbas region in the southeast of Ukraine in a bid to revive peace negotiations.